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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

(2025)
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Awards
2025 Dragon Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee)

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2025

A Barack Obama Summer Read

A Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, and Publishers Weekly Best of the Year

Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction

The New York Times bestseller and ‘horror masterpiece’ (NPR) from Stephen Graham Jones—the master of modern horror—is a chilling historical horror novel tracing the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.

‘Jones has written his Interview with the Indigenous Vampire. A landmark of horror and historical fiction alike, perhaps the closest thing we have to horror'''s Moby-Dick.’ —Vulture

‘Inventive and spine-tingling…a master class in voice. Queasy, uneasy, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter plays with the interplay between religion and historical guilt, identity and appetite.’ —The Washington Post

A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story written by one of the new masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones.



Genre: Horror

Praise for this book

"Stephen Graham Jones has lit a slow-burning candle that grows into a forest fire, illuminating the life of a Pikuni vampire and everyone he has touched, the pain of being a victim and perpetrator of violent history, and how memory serves to keep us who we are despite it all. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is beautiful, terrifying, sad, funny, and grotesque - everything I want in a novel." - Jessica Johns

"For me and vampires, there is Stoker, there is Rice, and now there is Jones. It's harrowing, agonizing, nuanced, and downright philosophical. Very likely Jones's masterpiece." - Daniel Kraus

"A master at blending horror, suspense, and culturally rich stories that are as thought-provoking as they are spine-tingling. Jones's singular voice and exploration of identity, of trauma and survival, make every page pulse with kinetic urgency." - David A Robertson


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